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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
100%. The one thing you get at a bigco is bigness -- you can release a product to potentially millions of customers on day 1. When you call on a possible customer or partner, they return your call immediately because BigCo is on the line.
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
GDPR/CCPA were punch 1. Apple killing IDFA was punch 2. Ad dollars shifting massively to GOOG / META / AMZN meant advertisers (and agencies) didn't need to have 3rd party data anymore to power campaigns ... they could us
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
How much do you plan to pay for the product? If you're paying a few dollars per month for a consumer product, be aware that having a human answer a single inbound call or email from you can often wipe out the entire year's revenu
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
Office space is not a problem anywhere (and do you even really need it these days?) An investor once said to me "If you can't figure out how to get office space for your startup, you shouldn't be an entrepreneur"...unles
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
The thing Seattle needs most is more Series A and beyond firms. We have a bunch of great folks looking at pre-seed and seed deals. But beyond Madrona and Trilogy (who is virtually unknown even here in town -- they deserve more spotlight)
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
It's relatively rare to host anyone other than family in European countries. In asian cultures you commonly host people at restaurants / catering halls.
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
Founders never have preferred shares, at least not the same class of preferred (with the same preferences) as investors.
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
Many people top out at a lower level because they don't play corporate politics games or because the L7s aren't moving on, so there's no real room for promotion among the L5s and 6s. Microsoft in the Ballmer years (early&#x2F
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
I must be an idiot, I've been a cofounder or first hire in 6 startups (2 successful) over the last 25 years and have literally never been offered secondary during a Seed or Series A or B.
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
Actually it's because antitrust laws are stretched to the point that big acquisitions are no longer likely to win approval, so "alternative" exits are the only option. Not to mention that until interest rates rose a few years
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
This is a long-standing issue...while VMs on x86-based Macs can log into iCloud (and thus sign into Xcode teams and the MacOS App Store), VMs on ARM Macs have been unable to do so. Looks like this is coming, although ironically the first be
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macOS Sequoia to Allow iCloud Logins in Virtual Machines on ARM Macs(developer.apple.com)
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
The only thing that will truly solve climate change is technological innovation. The best system ever invented for that is free market capitalism. People on the left seem to think _all_ people on the right "don't believe in clima
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
She's single-handedly responsible for denying public markets investors the ability to reap the benefits (by investing in) from all of the hot tech startups that are too-small to go public but would have been attractive acquisition cand
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
If you have a product with good metrics and customers, investors no longer care where you're based. They've come to terms with fully-remote companies. If you do need/want to raise, move to SF for 3-4 months to take meetings
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by throwaway-blaze 2y ago
No one is mentioning the liability costs (and liability insurance costs) here in the US vs other western countries, which is playing into the costs of these new-to-market drugs. In 10 years or so, when there's an established history o
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
A lot earlier than 1992.
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
Tracy Kidder
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
AABrowser is mine.
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
The default browser has no technical ability in iOS (currently) to supply an in-app component to replace WKWebView or SFSafariViewController, and frankly as an app developer I shudder at the idea of having to test our use of in-app browsers
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
This is untrue, the US carriers had a "cross-carrier" consortium that had built most of its own RCS stack, complete with animating dots when the other party was typing, and good image and video support. But Samsung refused to use
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
Um no, if the powers that be who control the LTE and 5G (and soon 6G) standards would improve or replace MMS, apple would be forced to improve their ability to send images/videos because they must comply with the standards to have thei
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
Not to cast doubt on your friend's story, I worked on both the SQL Server team and later on the Windows kernel team in the early 2000s (the bad years). I came from "outside" meaning I had already had a career at non-Microsof
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
70+% of revenue for subscription apps comes from the Apple side, at least in western markets.
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
Gotta ask, Shakespeare scholar and hacker/techie? That's great. I did a lot of art history classes while majoring in cs as an undergrad.
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
It's not 49% of the phone market in the EU. More like 36%, and in some markets like Italy and Spain, far far smaller.
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
Given that they literally tell you not to wear the device outside (and that early reviewers showed how it stopped working in a moving car or on a moving train, the device stops displaying content when its accelerometer determines you might
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
We need a term other than "recall" for minor software changes. The headline makes it sound like 2.2mm vehicles are going to be scheduling service appointments to fix this.
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
That is literally how the age verification for porn works in Louisiana and Virginia among other states.
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by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
The FTC already implements a "corporate death penalty" in the form of massive fines if an organization collects data on kids and uses it to target advertising (see COPPA)

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